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Beginner: Building proximity beacon using CC2640

Seokchan Yoo43
Prodigy 50 points
Other Parts Discussed in Thread: CC2540, CC2640, CC2650

Hello. I am a college student who is relatively new to hardware design. So please understand me that if I am asking primitive questions :p 

I want to develop a small proximity beacon powered CR2032 battery, and I decided to use either one of CC2640 or CC2540.

I read several tutorials on wiki page, but it did not give me clear insight about where to begin this project. 

According to the wiki page, TI sells various kinds of starter kit and development kit. Are these kits required for developing my own hardware and software design for proximity beacon? What are advantages/benefits of purchasing these kits? (What are these kits for?)

Also I would like to know information that can help me to understand the process of developing beacons. Thanks a lot!

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    TI__Mastermind 25035 points
    Hi, the fastest and easiest way to get started is to run our SimpleBLEBroadcaster sample app on the SmartRF06+CC2650EM board. These kits are useful for rapid prototyping of application before you design your own board. It already includes a sample beacon format, you would just change the fields to your own specific UUID.

    See here for more info:
    www.ti.com/.../swra475.pdf
  • 0 in reply to Zahid Haq
    Prodigy 50 points
    Hi, Zahid.
    Just few more follow up questions here..
    About Smart RF06 (evaluation board) + CC2650 EM (reference design), can I just purchase CC2650DK (Development Kit)?
    Could you also elaborate little more about how these kits will help prototyping? I am really new to this field :(
    I sincerely appreciate your answers.
  • 0 in reply to Seokchan Yoo43
    Guru 735455 points

    Yes, you can purchase CC2650DK which contains 2 x SmartRF06EB and 2 x CC2650EM-7ID. For SW part, you can download BLE-STACK-2-1. There are SimpleBLEBroadcaster and SimpleBLEObserver examples that can be used as proximity application accordingly.